Process for working near our assets

An outline of the process for planning, assessing and designing your work to avoid damage to our assets.
Assets may be damaged by any type of work that causes changes to the ground including building work, earthworks and alteration of surfaces, movement of heavy vehicles, work causing excessive vibrations, dewatering, open and trenchless excavations, installing ground anchors, installing buried and overhead services, planting and removing trees.

Our assets also present a risk to your work – occasionally our assets fail for reasons that are unrelated to third party works such as from aging, corrosion or mechanical failures which can have hazardous impacts.

Damage can be avoided by carefully planning and conducting the work.
The steps below outline the process for safely working near our assets.

The steps below outline the process for safely working near our assets.

Request approval from us if your proposed work is in, on, over, under or within the prescribed proximities to our assets.

We will be in contact within 5 days of receipt of your application – please allow up to 28 days for us to review your application and either:

approve

approve with conditions*

request you make changes if the application is not acceptable

*a condition may included preparing a detailed design for asset relocation or protection works – where this is required you should arrange your schedule to allow for Water Corporation reviews and consultations. Please note: this process can take several months. An indication of the time to allow will be provided to you by one of our representatives once you've submitted your application.

Once your application has been approved, proceed with your work

Conduct a site meeting with one of our representatives at project start-up and before project close out

Allow for any work that needs to be performed by us as asset inspections, isolations and connections. Note that costs may be incurred – an indication of the associated costs will be provided to you by one of our representatives once you've submitted your application

You must have work plans, Dial Before You Dig information, work clearances and any other related information on site at all times

Undertake project close out – this includes providing us with all documents required for final acceptance including as-constructed drawings.

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